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Defending Arlington Park owner champion Frank C. Calabrese, as well
as defending trainer champion Wayne Catalano, are pursuing their own records
established last season for number of wins in a single season at Arlington.

Calabrese's silks were posed in the winner's circle 66 times last
year, more than any other owner in Arlington Park history in during one
meeting, and Catalano saddled 64 winners during the 2002 Arlington season,
also a mark never previously obtained during a single session at the
Northwest suburban Chicago oval by any other conditioner.

With 10 days to go in the meeting (including Sunday), Calabrese's
horses have won 56 races, so if he averages a winner a day until closing day
Sept. 27, he will equal his own mark.

Catalano, who has saddled 51 winners during the 2003 Arlington
meeting going into Sunday's program, has a more difficult goal. An average
of a winner a day until Sept. 27 would still leave him three shy of last
year's mark.

However, Catalano's 2003 training championship is assured. His
nearest rivals had less than half of his number of winners going into
Sunday's program. Catalano's upcoming title will be his second straight, as
well as his third Arlington title in the last four years.

The record for the most successive training titles at Arlington is
five, established by Harvey Vanier from 1993-1997, and the record for most
Arlington training titles overall is held jointly by conditioners William
Hal Bishop and the still-active Richard Hazelton, who each won this Chicago
crown eight times.

Hazelton is also Arlington Park's all-time leading trainer.

Calabrese's leading owner championship for 2003 at Arlington is also
assured, and will give him three straight Arlington owner titles. The
record for most successive owner titles is four, a mark shared by Calumet
Farm and Irish Acres Farm, but Calumet is far in front for total number of
Arlington owner titles with eight.

Panamanian-born jockey Rene Douglas took Arlington by storm when he
won the Arlington jockey championship during his first full season of
Chicago summer riding in 2001, and he has not released his grip on that
title since.

Douglas defended his championship last season, and is 43 wins in
front of Eddie Razo Jr., his closest pursuer, with 10 days to go in the
summer session at Arlington.

Douglas's third straight Arlington title will tie him with the late
Steve Brooks and Bill Hartack for most successive seasons with the Arlington
jockey championship.

Hartack was inducted into the National Museum and Racing Hall of
Fame at Saratoga Springs in 1959, and Brooks was accorded that same honor in
1963.

Hall of Fame jockey Earlie Fires, Arlington's all-time leading
reinsman and still active with 39 wins during the 2003 session going into
Sunday's program, has won Arlington's jockey championship six times, more
than any other rider. The Arkansas native was inducted at Saratoga in 2001.

Eddie Razo has enjoyed his finest summer at Arlington this year
after first coming to Chicago in the 1980s, and will be a solid second in
the final standings. The Mexican-born rider had 79 winners going into the
Sunday program.

Veteran reinsman Curt Bourque, returning to Arlington after an
absence of several years this summer, is clearly third in the latest local
standings with 64 winners, while jockey Carlos Marquez Jr., was in the
fourth spot with 55.

Chris Emigh was fifth in the standings with 50 winners going into
Sunday's races.

Arlington champion Rene Douglas also rode two winners Saturday -- in
back-to-back races -- taking the second with Marianne Welch's Mon Cabo for
trainer Hal Wiggins and the third on Eugene L. Grandon's Pampered for
conditioner Bob Holthus.

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